The W700 & W701 use the same keyboard as the T60, T61 and W500. A replacement costs around $20-30 and involves removing 5 screws to replace. Around a 10 minute job at most. The W701ds sells for quite a bit these days but the non ds models don't seem to sell for much more than $300-400. There have b...

Not to disillusion you, but you are replying to a post from 5 years ago... I doubt very much that the machine is still available. Also, pqtex hasn't been on the forum in 5 years either. Ha Ha! I'm back. I kept the W701ds and did indeed get used to it. It has been a great computer, although through ...

I've pretty much decided to sell my w701ds. It's still practically brand new (received it February 2011), but haven't I never logged much time on it because I couldn't get used to the wide gamut display. I just kept using my old Dell laptop instead. I admit that the w701ds has lots of great features...

If you're still looking, I have one to sell. I bought the W701ds new from the Lenovo website...one of the last ones sold before being discontinued. It's too much computer for me, and I'd rather go back to my old Dell laptop. If interested, I'll give you all the particulars. It is in like-new conditi...

Gosh, I ordered my W701DS and it immediately disappeared from the lenovo website. It must have been one of the last W701DS models to be shipped. I'm sure it's a great computer, but I have yet to get used to the wide gamut color that seems so oversaturated. I ordered it because I wanted the 17" lapto...

I would like to try to tweak the colors using nvidia, but the nvidia control panel won't open. I thought maybe it was disabled because the w701ds comes with the built-in huey pro calibrator? I have verified I have the latest driver.

Oliver26n...THANK YOU! I just downloaded Firefox (which I intended to do anyway) and began comparing some photos between IE and Firefox. These photos had been posted on facebook and were the most annoying to view, specifically due to the horrible oversaturation of red (toxic blobs of color, no defin...

I sure wish I'd known that before buying the w701ds. I did so much research, and wanted the size/resolution of this display, but I didn't understand (or know enough to question) what the wide-gamut meant. I bought this computer for architectural design software, some photo editing, but I also watch ...

Thanks for the help. I'd seen various posts on getting a better pen, but when I was searching for the digitizer model, hadn't come up with that one. I do recall seeing Cintiq on the model list at Wacom for the video tutorials. Appreciate the link with the tips. Jill

Thank you! I'd searched and read as much as I could find about the W701ds, but when I looked for something specific, didn't come up with that! I will try the suggestions about the calibration. Jill

Whoa! I never knew what a full gamut display would look like. The W701ds has the huey pro pantone calibrator but I'm having difficulty accepting the colors. I bought this computer for an architectural design program that needed discrete graphics. I also wanted the 17" screen with the 1920 x1200 reso...

Thanks, Q-Ball. It isn't touch sensitive, only pen. I've experimented with it and it's a nice feature when working with photoshop or paint. I had originally gone to the wacom site because they have a lot of video tutorials. The tutorials can be sorted by model...and I still don't have a clue about t...

Is the digitizer on the w701ds a wacom? If not, what is it? I'm looking for a model number so I can locate tutorials, general information, manual, etc. The lenovo advertising and my order confirmation indicates it is a Wacom, but when I contacted wacom with a question about the digitizer, I was told...

Thanks for the input. I now remember reading prior posts when I was researching the w701ds that some of the older nvidia drivers had fewer conflicts than the newer ones; but I didn't think about that when I ran across my issue with the nvidia control panel. I'll peruse those links and look into the ...

I am exploring my new W701ds. I've only had it a few weeks, and haven't made many changes yet. Basically, I added anti-virus software, windows updates, and played around with it trying to learn what it will do before I start installing software. I purchased it to run some architectural design softwa...